The promoters behind live music venues Ace of Spades and The Assembly are working on a new bar, restaurant and live music concept in the former home of Hamburger Patties at 17th and J streets in midtown Sacramento.

Eric Rushing and Bret Bair have run Ace of Spades successfully for several years, and they took over Assembly in December.

Bair said the team is still working on the concept and it doesn’t have a name yet.

But they did seek a liquor license under the name Cowboys and Angels Saloon LLC.

The general concept is a country bar and restaurant and maybe even some retail space.

The 5,500-square-foot space has a storied past in Sacramento with live music. Before becoming a burger joint in 1994, the restaurant and bar at 1630 J St. for decades was a location of a Sam's Hof Brau restaurant. Sam's was a bar and restaurant by day and a live blues bar by night.

After a nearly 20 year run, Hamburger Patties shut down in August. The hamburger restaurant opened as Hamburger Mary's with the San Francisco-based chain, and then went independent with the Hamburger Patties name.